Extreme Dislike For Chain Pickerel

[Chief 2]

_{I also have been plagued with the overabundance of Pickerel this year. Spoke with a Marine Biologist about it and he says the lake I fish is a Pickerel factory. Great! he said they coexists with bass just fine.} 

[bigbill]

No way your not enjoying the fight. I like catching them inbetween bass too. The 29" to 32" picketed are a hoot to catch.

It's the turtles I hate. They sit like rocks on the bottom grabbing my lure as it passes them then the fight begins. They claw the bottom all the way up to the shoreline. I'm talking a 15" 235 jeep tire sized snapper on my 8# Excalibur copolymer line. I caught the same turtle twice. He thought I had a amusement risen

Pickerel are fun to catch enjoy the fight. I'd like to go pike fishing someday. I already purchased the HD bait caster setups for them.

They stock a small dam area with trout. They have no clue that there's a great northern pike in there feasting on them. I been on the hunt for it too. I've seen it a few times ambushing bait fish or probably hatchery raised dumb trout that have no clue there's a shark in the water.

In all my many years of fishing I recently had one try to bite me many times while trying to remove my citrus crankbait from its mouth. Was he tearing up the baitfish till I caught him.

These Muskie,Pike, Pickerel are highly sought after Gamefish.

Don't hate them enjoy the fight.

[bigbill]

_{I also have been plagued with the overabundance of Pickerel this year. Spoke with a Marine Biologist about it and he says the lake I fish is a Pickerel factory. Great! he said they coexists with bass just fine.}

One of my local fisherman makes fish cakes out of them he's from the old country. He has caught many crappies too. He takes everything. We hate to see his car parked at our hot spots.

[bigbill]

Have a snake head problem put pike in there.

[porkleaker]

I love them and pike and actually go out looking for them specifically. I've also gone out for Bowfin/Dogfish too which are much like snake heads, it's a good fight but you just have to make sure you've got some hefty line and a steel leader on for them. Our bass season doesn't open until June 21st so there's really not much else to do but catch the toothy ones. 

[Nashua Nev]

I like big pickerel.   Many many I catch with a rage rig weightless.

 

 

fish this size are fun , but we don't get many this big up here in NH , This is close to our state record at 27ish  8+lbs

 

 

 

 

I am going pike fishing soon in hopes of a 35+ incher.  in my yak

I have never caught a pike.   I do catch a lot of 20 - 22 inch pickerel.

[Jar11591]

PICKERELRESOURCE.COM?...

I had a good laugh.

[MakoMaui]

It's not supposed to be fun.

A couple shark fishing trips will sharpen your game     

 

Well said. If you want to downsize the threat of one fish, target something bigger, and more aggressive. Those pickeral will soon start to seem like goldfish. Personally, I enjoy catching pickerel. They put up a great fight, and they taste good too. I think many people dislike them as a food source because they are considered bony fish and can be a problem to clean. There are ways around those bones though without losing a significant amount of meat. The only thing I don't enjoy catching are snags. To me, a fish is a fish.

[FirstnameLastname]

Pickeral are aggressive, but I like them. They grow large up north and are fun to catch when the bass ain't biting, like in cold weather. Fish that annoy me, tiny bluegill s that strip my hook clean and snapping turtles. Trying getting a hook out of one of those, they have no fight either when being pulled in.

[Shanes7614]

Porkleaker... You from NJ?

[everythingthatswims]

I love them and pike and actually go out looking for them specifically. I've also gone out for Bowfin/Dogfish too which are much like snake heads, it's a good fight but you just have to make sure you've got some hefty line and a steel leader on for them. Our bass season doesn't open until June 21st so there's really not much else to do but catch the toothy ones. 

I might go "pike fishing" and accidentally catch some bass

[Catch and Grease]

Around here when a person catches a jack sometimes I've seen them pull up to tree and beat it to death, slit its stomach open, cut its head off, stomp on them, etc...

Its makes me so mad because most of those people are the guys who go fishing once every couple of weeks and don't know anything about pickerel. They think like this, "I like to catch bass, they eat bass, we should kill them".

The pickerel in my lake are so healthy and its just sad to see people kill them for stupid reasons

Same goes with gar too.